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THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT, See also:ANNE JOSEPHE (1762-1817) , a Frenchwoman who was a striking figure in the Revolution, was See also:born at Marcourt (from a corruption of which name she took her usual designation), a small See also:town in Luxembourg, on the See also:banks of the Ourthe, on the 13th of See also:August 1762. She was the daughter of a well-to-do See also:farmer, See also:Peter Th€roige. She With a See also:mercury thermometer a continuous See also:record of temperature can only be obtained by the aid of See also:photography, a method which has been in use for many years at some first-class observatories, but which cannot be generally employed on See also:account of the expense and the elaborate nature of the apparatus required. The commonest type of recording thermometer See also:works on the principle of the See also:Bourdon pressure-See also:gauge. The bulb consists of a curved metallic See also:tube filled with liquid, the expansion of which with rise of temperature tends to straighten the tube. The movements are recorded on a revolving See also:drum by a See also:pen carried at the end of a See also:light See also:lever attached to the bulb. This See also:form of See also:instrument is widely employed for rough See also:work, but it has a very limited range and is unsuitable for accurate work on account of want of sensitiveness and of See also:great liability to See also:change of zero, owing to imperfect See also:elasticity of the See also:metal tube. For accurate work, especially at high temperatures, See also:electrical thermometers possess many advantages, and are often the only See also:instruments available. They are comparatively See also:free from change of zero over See also:long periods, and the thermometer or See also:pyrometer itself may be placed in a See also:furnace or elsewhere at a considerable distance from the recording apparatus. The See also:principal types are the thermocouple and the See also:platinum resistance thermometer already described, which may be employed for recording purposes, without altering the thermometer itself, by connexion to a suitable recording mechanism. The methods in use. for recording the indications of electrical thermometers may be classified as in § 24 under the two headings of (I) deflexion methods and (2) See also:balance methods. Deflexion methods, in which the deflexion of the See also:galvanometer is recorded, are more suitable for rough work, and balance methods for accurate measurements. The most delicate and most generally applicable method of recording the deflexions of a See also:mirror galvanometer is by photographing the movements of the spot of light on a moving film. Almost any required See also:scale or degree of sensitiveness may be obtained in this manner, but the record cannot be inspected at any See also:time without removal and development. Since the forces actuating the See also:needle of the galvanometer are very small, it is out of the question to attach a pen or marking point directly to the end of the pointer for recording a continuous trace on a revolving drum, because the errors due to See also:friction with the recording See also:sheet would be excessive. This difficulty has been avoided in many electrical instruments by
appears to have been well educated, having been brought up in the See also:convent of Robermont ; she was See also:quick-witted, strikingly handsome in See also:appearance and intensely passionate in See also:temper ; and she had a vigorous eloquence, which she used with great effect upon the mobs of See also:Paris during that See also:short space of her See also:life (1789-93) which alone is of See also:historical See also:interest. The See also:story of her having been betrayed by a See also:young seigneur, and having in consequence devoted her life to avenge her wrongs upon aristocrats, a story which is told by Lamartine and others, is unfounded, the truth being that she See also:left her See also:home on account of a See also:quarrel with her stepmother. In her career as courtesan she visited See also:London in 1782, was back in Paris in 1785, and in See also:Genoa in 1788, where she was a See also:concert See also:singer. In 1789 she returned to Paris. On the outbreak of the Revolution, she was surrounded by a coterie of well-known men, See also:chief of whom were Potion and See also:Desmoulins; but she did not See also:play the role which See also:legend has assigned her. She took no See also:part in the taking of the See also:Bastille nor in the days of the 5th and 6th of See also:October, when the See also:women of Paris brought the See also: In the clubs of Paris her See also:voice was often heard, and even in the See also:National See also:Assembly she would violently interrupt the expression of any nioderatist views. Known henceforth as "la belle Liegoise," she appeared in public dressed in a See also:riding See also:habit, a plume in her See also:hat, a See also:pistol in her See also:belt and a See also:sword dangling at her See also:side, and excited the See also:mob by violent harangues. Associated with the See also:Girondists and the enemies of See also:Robespierre, she became in fact the " Fury of the See also:Gironde." She commanded in See also:person the 3rd See also:corps of the so-called See also:army of the faubourgs on the loth of See also:June 1792, and again won the gratitude of the See also:people. She shares a heavy responsibility for her connexion with the riots of the loth of August. A certain contributor to the See also:journal, the Acts of the Apostles, Suleau by name, earned her See also:savage hatred by associating her name, for the See also:sake of the play upon the word, with a See also:deputy named Populus, whom she had never seen. On the loth of August, just after she had watched approvingly the See also:massacre of certain of the national guard in the See also:Place See also:Vendome, Suleau was pointed out to her. She sprang at him, dragged him among the infuriated mob, and he was stabbed to See also:death in an instant. She took no part in the massacres of See also:September, and, moderating her conduct, became less popular from 1793. Towards the end of May the Jacobin women seized her, stripped her naked, and flogged her in the public See also:garden of the Tuileries. The following year she became mad, a See also:fate not surprising when one considers her career. She was removed to a private See also:house, thence in 1800 to La Salpetriere for a See also:month, and thence to a place of confinement called the Petites Maisons, where she remained—a raving maniac—till 1807. She was then again removed to La Salpetriere, where she died, never having recovered her See also:reason, on the 9th of June See also:THESEUS 837 he had slain the Amazonian queen Penthesilea, bitterly lamented her death; for this he was reviled by See also:Thersites, who even insulted the See also:body of the dead queen. See also:Achilles thereupon slew Thersites with a See also:blow of his fist (Quint. Smyrn. i. 722). There was a play by See also:Chaeremon called Achilles the Thersites-slayer, probably a satyric See also:drama, the materials of which were taken from the Aethiopis of See also:Arctinus. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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